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Lenin had the most significant role in the consolidation of the new Soviet…
Lenin had the most significant role in the consolidation of the new Soviet state.
Theory
Communist ideals
Qualities as a leader
Organizational abilities
Leadership abilities
strong personality to force decisions
tough, hard, calculating
totally dedicated to politics and revolution
good orator
forceful and persuasive
April Thesis
Demanded "All Power to the Soviets"
October Uprising
Policies implemented
Early Reforms:
8-hour day and social insurance system
All titles or class distinctions abolished
All ranks abolished in army
Workers took over factories
Banks were nationalised
Schools were taken over by state
Church lands were confiscated
War Communism
Command economy - influenced by state instead of law of supply and demand
Decrees
Issue of socialist coalition
Treaty of Brest-Litvosk and the Red Army
Decree of Peace - represented the "the workers" and "peasant" government created by the Revolution to demand for peace
Formal treaties with the Germans
Treaty contained terms: surrender Russia's part of Poland to Germany, Turkey to take part of the Caucasus region, Finland, Georgia, and Ukraine to become independent, 6 billion marks of war reperations paid to Germany
Lenin argued "Russia was exhausted"
NEP
New Economic Policies
limited amount of free-market capitalism
End to grain requisition
Small businessmen were allowed to own and run medium size businesses and factories
Private traders were allowed to buy and sell goods in an open market
Rationing abolished
State industries such as coal and steel which Lenin claim were "the commanding heights of the economy" remain in government hands